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True or False?
Which are true????
Can you guess which of the following are true and which are false?
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
4. People do not get sick from cold weather;
it's from being indoors a lot more.
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
8. Babies are born without kneecaps.
They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoonthan any other time of day.
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand
is to search for water.
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning
their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
19. John Travolta turned down the starring
roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the
South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture
of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk
22 Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane,
just in case there is a crash
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903
used a tomato can for a carburetor
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from
women who give birth. T! hey are used in vein transplant surgery.
25. Humphrey Bogart was re lated to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
they are all true...now go back and think about #16 YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05-16-2004, 06:08 PM
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Alot of people that responded to the "Phobia"thread will
appreciate #16! Irish
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05-16-2004, 08:16 PM
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I would say #16 is TRUE!!!!! I woke up with a daddy-long-leg spider on my face!!!!
I will come back to the other ones after I ponder them a bit. 
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05-16-2004, 08:25 PM
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Are you sure #2 is true! If he didn't have a belly button then what did he have?????
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05-16-2004, 08:38 PM
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That's what I was thinking, Summer. It's not physically possible to not have one- it's formed from the umbilical cord, which connects a person to their mother, meaning they were born.
Was he an alien and I just wasn't aware of it?
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05-16-2004, 08:42 PM
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05-16-2004, 08:44 PM
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Did Hitchcock have a belly button?
Believe it or not but I get this question all the time. Answer: Hitchcock being a mamal had to be born with a belly button, its just how it is for us mamals. Apparently Hitchcock had several opperations in the belly area leading his doctors to sow up the bb, but I have never read this from a credible printed source. I suspect its an bizarre urban legend.
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05-16-2004, 10:21 PM
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I got that in an e-mail!I wondered about the BB thing myself,
because if I remember corectly,all of the feeding vien,congregate
at on place & are tied off.He may have had operations after,but I
would think that he had to have been born with one! Irish
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05-16-2004, 11:37 PM
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Re: True or False?
1. Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
True
2. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button.
False....anyone born has to have had an umbilical cord attached to have survived
3. A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 years.
False
4. People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
True (my opinion) Germs find it harder to survive in colder weather.....give them a warmer enviroment and they will multiply causing more illness indoors
5. When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop, even your heart!
True
6. Only 7 per cent of the population are lefties.
7. Forty people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
True
8. Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
False...Kneecaps form about the fourth month of fetal life. However, they don’t show up on x-ray very well because they’re not ossified, or bony.
9. The average person over 50 will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
True
11. The average housefly lives for one month.
False....About 2-3 weeks
12. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
Well i dont know about every year but in 1998, 48,964 Americans were injured by their toilet
13. A coat hanger is 44 inches long when straightened.
14. The average computer user blinks 7 times a minute.
True
15. Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than any other time of day.
True....feet swell
16. Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
False
17. The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
Ostriches do NOT stick their heads in the sand at all
18. The only two animals that can see behind themselves without turning their heads are the rabbit and the parrot.
False...sheep have a 270 degree range of vision...pigs can also see behind themselves having a 300 degree range of vision.....i'm more than sure there are more animals with this ability
19. John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie."
True.....He turned down An Officer and a Gentleman which went to Richard Gere.....unsure on Tootsie
20. Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
21. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture
of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk
22 Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash
True
23. The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903
used a tomato can for a carburetor
False
24. Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are used in vein transplant surgery.
False....they use the blood from the cord not the actual cord
25. Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
False
26. If coloring weren't added to Coca-Cola, it would be green.
False
NOTE:any facts not in bold i've yet to determine an answer for
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05-17-2004, 06:10 AM
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#25 ... That sort of affirms the theory put forth in "Six Degrees of Separation" ... that all of us are only six people away from knowing anybody else on this planet.
Is it OK if I skip over Jackko?
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05-17-2004, 12:34 PM
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Here is a fact about #10. The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
Not sure if the year is correct or not BUT it was invented in Lousianna
The reason I am so sure of this?
If it were invented anywhere else it would have been named a TEETH brush
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